I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.

How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it.

It's such a liability to love another person.

Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Beauty was empty as a gourd, vain as a parakeet. But it had power. It smelled of musk and oranges and made you close your eyes in a prayer.

What makes you think children like childish things? Don't tell them how to be children. They want to grow up.

How beautiful to be fully alive in the moment?

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits

Never lose hope. Never forget the power of intentions and desires.

I write down the three measurements which Lou and I agreed are central to knowing if the company is making money: net profit, ROI and cash flow.

A great advantage of X-ray analysis as a method of chemical structure analysis is its power to show some totally unexpected and surprising structure with, at the same time, complete certainty.

Don't ever leave me again." -Max I won't. I won't not ever." -Fang

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital.

In the mountains, there you feel free.